We are continuing to enjoy our science unit on Matter.  We talked about being "engineers". Engineers make and observe mixtures. We continued to explore wood.  We looked at sawdust and wood shavings and compared them. Then we made mixture by mixing them together.  We found that the sawdust was hard to see. Then we took it a step further and added the mixture to water and stirred it up.  We talked about how the wood was "waterlogged", which means very soggy.  Then I asked how we could get our wood back! We had some really great ideas.  Devin thought we could use our hand to keep the sawdust from coming through, just the water would. Then we used a screen to strain our wood mixture.  We found that the water was cloudy and Liam saw that it was an orange color.  So what is making the water that way? We had great discussions and finally we decided that it must be from the wood! We decided to try to strain the water even more by using a paper towel inside the screen.  When we did that we could see the sawdust left behind! Boy, Scientist have to think hard!